​Tuesday night, Visit Indy celebrated the best of the best of our 80,600 hospitality employees at our 27th Annual Rose Awards. Rose is a Recognition of Service Excellence, and the 70 nominees are at the heart of why Indy has earned a reputation for Hoosier hospitality. Frontline hospitality employees were nominated for going above and beyond to ensure visitors have an incredible experience in our city and can’t wait to return. Eight (8) were selected as Rose Winners. Their stories can be found here: https://www.visitindy.com/indianapolis-presenting-the-27th-annual-rose-award-winners.

Another descriptor attached to the eight-mile trail that winds through downtown and past local works of art and cultural landmarks and on into Fountain Square? “Surprising.”

While the trail, whose last section opened in May 2012, was supposed to be a nice city amenity and promote a healthy lifestyle among downtown residents and visitors, few imagined how bustling the brick-paved corridor for non-motorized traffic would become.

And almost no one imagined it would become one of the city’s top drawing cards for meeting and convention planners.

The Athenaeum Foundation announced today it has been designated as a National Historic Landmark by the National Register and National Historic Landmarks Program. The historic Athenaeum is now part of an exclusive group of just more than 40 Indiana landmarks to receive the designation, and one of approximately 2,500 landmarks nationally.The National Historic Landmarks (NHL) Program grants the honorable distinction to places that possess exceptional value or quality in illustrating or interpreting the heritage of the United States. Historic places are deemed nationally significant, and designated by the Secretary of the Interior.

​According to the first-of-its-kind study, Columbus visitors gave high marks for the city's food and beverage scene, affordability and infrastructure. Rankings in other regions include: Las Vegas in the West Region, Austin in the Southwest Region, Orlando in the South and New York in the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic.